The Durrell School of Corfu boasts a faculty from around the world,
across the Arts and Sciences, and including both public and academic
figures.

Seminar leaders and lecturers have included David Bellamy, one of the
world's foremost ecological campaigners; Gayatri Spivak and Harish
Trivedi, well-known post-colonial literary critics and historians;
Terry Eagleton, the influential critical theorist; Anthony Stevens,
the Jungian psychiatrist and author; and Sukrita Paul Kumar, the poet
and teacher of literature in New Delhi.

Faculty participate in a variety of keynote lectures, tutorials, and/or seminars. For seminars,
faculty foster discussion amongst the panelists presenting papers, leading to increased scholarly
interaction and development. In tutorials, faculty guide students through materials in conjunction
with other events in the School. Since 2004, the DSC has focused on seminars involving scholars
from a variety of backgrounds, in which faculty promote greater interaction and development of a
core discussion than is typically possible in traditional academic conferences. eastern europe map

Visiting Faculty & Guest Writers:

Roderick Beaton - Dr. Beaton is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History,
Language and Literature at King's College London. He is the authors of several books, most notably
George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel and The Medieval Greek Romance, and his edited
volumes include The Greek Novel, A.D. 1 - 1985 and Digenes Akrites: New Approaches to
Byzantine Heroic Poetry. He is also an accomplished translator.

Hugh Bennison - The late
Hugh Bennison, who died in March 2010, was a part-time resident of Corfu, an
early pioneer who fell in love with the beauty and flora of the island and
bought a house here some thirty years ago. Hugh studied horticulture and
then tropical agriculture at Cambridge University. He had a career in
international rural development and poverty alleviation. He started in the
Kenyan Colonial Agricultural Service; stints in Botswana and Brussels
followed; and his final post before retirement was in Thailand where he was
the EU diplomat in charge of EU aid to South and South East Asia. Most
recently he had been involved in a commercial peony project and had
travelled extensively throughout the world studying and collecting
specimens.

Joseph Boone - Dr. Boone is Professor of English at the University of Southern
California. A specialist in the novel as genre, gender and queer theory, and modernism,
he is the author of Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction
and Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism. Recipient of
ACLS, Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Huntington Library Fellowships, among others, Boone
has co-edited two collections, Engendering Men: The Question of Male Feminist Criticism
and Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations. He has also written
a dramatic musical, with his composer-brother Benjamin, based on Herman Melville's novel The
Confidence-Man, and he is currently working on a project titled The Homoerotics of
Orientalism.

Terry Eagleton - Dr. Eagleton has recently relocated from
Oxford to the University of Manchester, where he is professor of Cultural Theory
and the John Rylands Fellow. An internationally respected scholar in critical
theory, he has also done major work in literature from the 19th and 20th centuries.
His other interests include English-language literature and culture of Ireland,
on which he has recently completed a trilogy of works. His keynote lecture in 2004
was based on his recent book on tragedy, Sweet Violence.

Shere Hite - Dr. Hite is an American born cultural historian, sex educator and
feminist, an expert on psycho-sexual behaviour and gender relations. Her sexological
work has focused primarily on female sexuality. Her books include The Hite Report on
Female Sexuality, The Hite Report on Men and Male Sexuality, Women and
Love: A Cultural Revolution in Progress, Sexual Honesty, by Women, for Women,
and Oedipus Revisited. Her forthcoming books include Women Loving Women and
Questions.

Aaron Jaffe - is an Assistant Professor of Modernism and Cultural Theory
at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of Modernism and
the Culture of Celebrity, and his work on Modernism has appeared in such
journals as symploke and Modernism/modernity.

Sukrita Paul Kumar - is a poet and critic, teaching literature at the
University of Delhi, and a former Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced
Study. She has published four volume of poems in English and her critical
works include Narrating Partition, Conversations on Modernism and Man,
Woman and Androgyny. She has co-edited Women's Studies in India: Contours
of Change and has held many visiting fellowships and lectureships at such
institutions as Cambridge University, SOAS in London and the University of Iowa.

Sean Latham - Dr. Latham is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the
Faculty of English at the University of Tulsa. His books include "Am I a Snob?": Modernism and
the Novel, Joyce's Modernism, and James Joyce: Visions and Revisions.

Michael Llewellyn-Smith - Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, DPhil, CMG, KCVO, is
a member of the Council of the British School at Athens, the Anglo-Hellenic League,
the Franco-British Council, the University of London, and the Cathedral Fabric Commission
for England. He is a visiting Professor at Kings College London and has been a Visiting
Fellow at Princeton University, a Foreign Fellow of the Onassis Foundation, and Visiting
Fellow of the British School at Athens. He has written several books on Modern Greek, most
notably Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor 1919-1922 and Athens: A Cultural and
Literary History.

Peter Mackridge - is Professor Emeritus in the University of Oxford and recent recipient of an
honorary doctorate from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and is widely recognized as
an authority on medieval and modern Greek language and literature, including the Ionian (and
National) poet Dionysios Solomos. Professor Mackridge�s books include The Modern Greek
Language (1985) and Dionysios Solomos (1989). He is co-author of Greek: A Comprehensive
Grammar of the Modern Language (1997). All these books have also been published in Greek; a
collection of his essays on Greek poets Εκμάγεια της ποίησης appeared in 2008; and Peter
Mackridge contributes regularly to Greek as well as anglophone academic literary journals. He has
edited Greek editions of works by Kosmas Politis: Eroica (1982) and Στου Χατζηφράγκου (1988);
and edited both the Greek text and the English translations in The Free Besieged and Other Poems
by Dionysios Solomos (2000). His most recent book Language and National Identity in Greece,
1766-1976 was published in April 2009.

Maria Misra - Dr. Misra is Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford University and a
Fellow of Keble College. Her books include Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India since the
Great Rebellion and Business, Race and Politics in British India c.1860-1960.
She presented a three-part TV documentary on eighteenth and nineteenth century India, 'An
India Affair' in 2001 and has written articles on Indian culture and
poltiics for the Guardian and New Statesman.

Jan Morris - Jan Morris, CBC, is a world-renowned writer, journalist, historian,
essayist, travel-writer and novelist, is the author of over forty books, many of them
classics, including Venice, Oxford, The Pax Britannica Trilogy,
The Venetian Empire, Journeys, Hong Kong, Sydney, Trieste
and the Meaning of Nowhere, Conundrum.

Mark Morris - Dr. Mark Morris is the Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Faculty
of Arts at the University of Alberta, Canada, and is a writer, photographer, award-winning
librettist, and broadcaster. He teaches creative non-fiction, including travel writing,
concentrating on helping young writers emerge. He has written widely for magazines and
newspapers in many genres, and his operas have been performed in eight countries and in
four languages. His first book, Domesday Revisited, was an historical travel book,
and his second, the Pimlico Dictionary of 20th-Centry Composers, a huge survey of
20th-Century classical music.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Dr. Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor
in the Humanities at Columbia University. An esteemed scholar, translator,
and educator, she has been a Kent fellow and a Guggenheim Fellow. Among her
Distinguished Faculty Fellowships is the Tagore Fellowship at the Maharaja
Sayajirao University of Baroda (India). Her book Don't Call me Postcolonial:
From Kant to Kawakubo was published by Harvard in 1998. Her other
publications include In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1988)
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), and her seminal essay "Can the
Subaltern Speak?" She also publishes and lectures in her native Bengali.

Harish Trivedi - Dr. Trivedi is a Professor of English at the University
of Delhi, where he is also Head of the Department of English. He has spoken widely
as a visiting scholar at such schools as the University of London, George Washington
University, l'Université de Montréal, University of Leiden, and Oxford. He is the
author of Colonial Transactions: English Literature and India as well as many
article on English Literature, Indian Literature, and Postcolonialism. He has also
edited Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990, Post-colonial
Translation: Theory and Practice, and Interrogating Post-colonialism: Theory,
Text and Context.

Returning Faculty

David Bellamy OBE -
originally trained as a botanist at Durham University, where he later held
the post of Senior Lecturer in Botany until 1982, and still holds the post
of Honorary Professor for Adult and Continuing Education. The word Botany is
from the Greek βοτανη, which means "pasture, grass, fodder", perhaps via the
idea of a livestock keeper needing to know which plants are safe for
livestock to eat. Botany, the study of plants, began with tribal efforts to
identify edible, medicinal and poisonous plants, making botany one of the
oldest sciences. From this ancient interest in plants, the scope of botany
has increased. David Bellamy, is a honorary patron of the Durrell School and
a frequent visitor to Corfu, will give his usual exuberant walks in Gerald
Durrell's footsteps, hi-lighting appreciation and changes in The Garden
of the Gods.

Brewster Chamberlin - Dr. Chamberlin's research and teaching interests
have concentrated on European history in the 19th and 20th centuries. He has
taught at the University of Maryland, the Johns Hopkins University's
School for Advanced International Studies, and at the Technical University
in Berlin. The editor and author of numerous articles and books on
German and European history, he also served in senior positions at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His books Paris Now and Then
and Mediterranean Sketches were published in 2002 and 2005 respectively.

Gerald Dawe - Mr. Dawe has published six collections of poetry, most recently
The Morning Train (1999) and Lake Geneva (2003). He has also
published two collections of essays and a critical memoir. He is a lecturer
in English and director of the graduate creative writing programme at Trinity
College Dublin. He is working on The Proper Word, collected essays on
poetry and politics in Ireland.

James Gifford - (alpha.fdu.edu/~jgifford)
Dr. Gifford is an Assistant Professor and Director of the University Core at Fairleigh
Dickinson University. His academic research generally includes reader
response, colonial literature, Humanities Computing, and twentieth century
literature (American and British). James has published extensively on Lawrence
Durrell and is currently editing the Robert Graves / Aemelia Laracuen correspondence
as well as the poetry and travel writing of the 19th century Canadian author Edward
Taylor Fletcher. His edition of the Henry Miller - Herbert Read Letters was
released in 2007 and his critical editions of Lawrence Durrell's first novels, Pied
Piper of Lovers and Panic Spring were released in 2008.

Anthony Hirst -
until recently Lecturer in Modern Greek (and now honorary research fellow)
in the Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University Belfast, is a
member of the Board of the Durrell School. Dr Hirst has published God and
the Poetic Ego (2004), a critical study of the religious
elements in the poetry of Palamas, Sikelianos and Elytis, and has restored Cavafy�s Greek text (to
conform to the author's own printings) for the Oxford World�s Classics dual-language edition of The
Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy (2007), a volume to which Peter Mackridge contributed a long
introductory essay. Apart from his work on Angelos Sikelianos (from Lefkada), Dr Hirst has done as
yet unpublished research on two other Ionian poets, Dionysios Solomos and Andreas Kalvos. spanish dog names

Isabelle Keller - has been teaching English literature, linguistics
and translation for the past three years at the University of Toulouse le
Mirail, France. Her work on anamorphosis in The Alexandria Quartet, for a
preliminary dissertation, was awarded the International Lawrence Durrell
Prize for New Scholarship in 2000. The study of anamorphosis has also led
her to work on intertextuality, relating Durrell's writing to the visual
arts.

Anna Lillios - Dr. Lillios is an associate professor of English at
the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. She served as past
president of the International Lawrence Durrell Society and is the editor
of its web site. Her edited volume of essays, Lawrence Durrell and the
Greek World, was published by Associated University Presses in 2004.

Ian S. MacNiven - Dr. MacNiven is the author of the authorized biography
on Lawrence Durrell and is the editor of a number of other volumes, including
The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 and The Modernists: Studies in a
Literary Phenomenon. He is a Professor Emeritus of the SUNY Maritime College
and is currently working on a biography of James Laughlin.

Raymond C. Marchionni - Raymond Carmine Marchionni, D.M.A., is Professor of Music in the Department of Music
at The University of Toledo. Prior to arriving at Toledo in 2001, he held positions
at various universities throughout the country. His posts have included Professor
and Chair of the Department of Music at Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne
(1997-2001) and Georgia Southern University (1981-1997), Chair of the Division of
Fine Arts and Director of the Alexander Center for the Performing Arts at Concord
College in West Virginia (1977-81), Assistant Professor of Piano at Coker College in
South Carolina (1973-77), Instructor of Piano at the University of North
Carolina-Greensboro (1968-1970) and at Denver University in Colorado (1965-1968).
He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Piano Performance at The University
of Michigan, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at North Texas State University.
He took advanced piano study with Daniel Ericourt, artist-in-residence at the
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, concentrating on the music of Debussy and
Ravel. His professional activities have included numerous solo piano recitals,
performances for national public radio and television, piano accompanist, chamber
music player, and conductor of master classes and workshops in piano.

James R. Nichols - Dr. Nichols is Professor of English Literature Emeritus
and Past Chair of the English and Philosophy Department at Georgia Southern
University. He presently serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the
Durrell School of Corfu. Dr. Nichols has published widely on the fiction of
Lawrence Durrell and co-edited a book on Durrell's humour. He has written a
novel, Children of the Sea, as well as a volume on the Australian
novelist Henry Handel Richardson. He is currently working on a study of the
fictional women of Lawrence Durrell.

Eve Patten - Dr. Patten has been a lecturer in English at Trinity College,
Dublin since 1996, before which she was a British Council lecturer at the
University of Bucharest, Romania. She has published work on various nineteenth
and twentieth-century Irish writers, and is co-author of A Glossary of Irish
Studies (Edward Arnold, 2003). In 2008 she co-edited Literatures of
War, the proceedings of the 2007 conference of the Lawrence Durrell
School/Durrell School of Corfu, and her monograph Imperial Refugee: Olivia Manning�s Fictions of
War will be published by Cork University Press in 2011.

Emilie Pine - Dr. Pine completed her Ph.D. at Trinity College, Dublin, in
2004, and then lectured for two years at the University of York. She
joined the School of English, Drama and Film at UNiversity College Dublin in the
spring of 2008. Her main research interests are in the interdisciplinary
study of modern Irish culture, with a specific focus on memory studies,
theatre and film. Her book, The Politics of Irish Memory: Performing
Remembrance in Contemporary Irish Culture is published by Palgrave
Macmillan. Emilie is currently writing a cultural history of Ireland in the
1930s and was the Irish Fulbright Scholar to UC Berkeley for 2010.

Richard Pine - www.durrell-school-corfu.org/pine.htm Academic Director.
Richard Pine, who founded the Durrell
School of Corfu in 2001-2, is the author of the definitive critical work
on Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence Durrell: The Mindscape (revised second edition
2005). In the 1970s and 80s he was a consultant to the Council of Europe on
cultural development programmes. He is a former Secretary of the Irish Writers'
Union and Chairman of the Media Association of Ireland, and an honorary fellow
of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. He has also written the definitive study of
the playwright Brian Friel, and lectures widely at universities and research
institutes in the USA and Europe, including Berkeley, Emory, NYU, UCLA, and the
Princess Grace Library Monaco.

Jim Potts -
Jim Potts worked for the British Council for 35 years, in Ethiopia,
Kenya, Britain, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Sweden and Australia. He was also Director of
the British Council in Czechoslovakia, Australia and Sweden; Regional Director, Northern
Greece and Head of East and Central Europe Department in London. He began his
international career as a teacher on Corfu; he studied English Literature,
Film-Making/Drama and Education at the universities of Oxford, Bristol and London,
respectively. His films include a documentary on traditional Ethiopian art and another
on the Greek-American playwright, Demetrius Toteras.

Beatrice Skordili - Dr. Skordili teaches English Literature and
Composition at New York College, Athens, Greece and completed a
dissertation on the Alexandria Quartet and Narrative Theory via a study
of topological tropes (Syracuse University, USA). She has presented and
published on Post-Structuralist Theory, Cinema, and Lawrence Durrell. Though
arising from a French psychoanalytic focus, her work attempts a syncretist
theoretical approach combined with close genealogical readings of texts